pg_dumpall has a flag for globals only which dumps an SQL file with
that info. Check it out pg_dumpall --help
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:55, Chris Curvey <ccurvey(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm a newbie to PG administration (although I have experience with
> other DBs). I need to move a single database to a brand new server.
>
> I've set up the new server with initdb, set up pg_hba.conf and
> postgresql.conf, and I can use dump and restore to move the database
> to the new environment.
>
> What I can't figure out is how to move all the existing users and
> roles over. I know about pg_dumpall, but that seems to be overkill --
> I don't need to move *all* the databases on my original server, just
> one of them.
>
> Is there a way to copy over just the users (with their passwords) and
> the roles?
>
>
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